2007-07-01 07:35:41 · 15 answers · asked by TRACER ™ 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
20 You shall be filled at my table with horses and riders , with mighty men.
2007-07-01 07:46:53 · update #1
Vampires? Too cool. I didn't know they wrote such good fiction back then.
2007-07-01 07:46:32 · answer #1 · answered by FTW 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In Ezekiel 39, Ezekiel is prophesing about what will happen AFTER the 1000 year total peaceful safe reign (the millineum) of Jesus over the world from the city of Jerusalem expires.
The Rosh prince refers to Russia, attacking Jerusalem and 5/6 of Russia's invading army shall be killed. It will take 7 months to bury all the bodies there are so many dead. God is not referring to vampires and cannibals in that passage but God is calling all of the scavaging animals on the earth and in the air to come feast off of their dead bodies. You know wild animals, vultures, and buzzards...etc. etc.
2007-07-01 16:26:46 · answer #2 · answered by faith 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
38 and 39 of the book of Ezekiel, arguing that the sacrificial imagery found in them is not 'generic' but reflects an understanding of the Molek cult. In this respect, Ezekiel 38 and 39 is comparable to Jeremiah 7 and Isaiah 30, the latter of which has recently been shown to invoke Molek cult imagery to describe the mass destruction of a foreign power.
2007-07-01 15:12:25 · answer #3 · answered by C R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God doesn't want people to become vampires or cannibals. The reference is to eating of animals, and the word "eat" used there is "lacham" (sorry if my spelling is off a bit) which means "to fight a battle, i.e. consume".
You'll also notice it says the son of man will be filled with horses and chariots in verse 20 ... obviously no one is going to munch a chariot lol
2007-07-01 14:49:54 · answer #4 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your choosing to take a metaphor and disfigure it. There were sacrifices back then... but if you read the bible in its entirety, you will understand what the people were thinking back then, and you were clearly see the path we walked down to slowly get to the part of the journey we are at now ( with a savior that became the last and final sacrifice, as it was his choosing )... the ultimate goal is perfect peace (the book of revelations 21)... where there is perfect peace, they'll be none of that... that will be at the end of the road, at the beginning of our new journey..
God has always maintained that he didn't want us to be his robots loving him... he wanted us to want to love him on our own accord... we've had to come to understand all these years suffering and love and mercy... we were animals in our culture and behavior.... God has always been the same, making the same promises... its a journey, if you read the bible in its entirety it unfolds in front of you the lessons and journey's.
2007-07-01 14:55:36 · answer #5 · answered by Deborah C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually God was speaking through Ezekiel to the animals, to invite them to the all-you-can-eat buffet of HUMAN flesh, when the people started slaughtering one another. This is in keeping with the covenant God made with Noah:
2007-07-01 14:50:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. I just read a passage saying, "Woe to the women who sew pillows in armholes."
So much of it sounds like pure gibberish to me. I have trouble plowing through it, and I defy anyone to make sense of it, unless they are using their own interpretation. I could interpret these words, too, but I would be no more correct than anyone else.
Drinking blood, eating the flesh of the mighty, pillows in armholes......yet I am sure some people will step forth with their theories about all of this.
I think perhaps much of it was "lost in translation."
2007-07-01 14:48:12 · answer #7 · answered by Me, Too 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ever check out Isaiah 36:12? That's worse!
2007-07-01 14:38:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When did people get classed as "feathered fowl, and beast of the field" You don't even need to know what this passage is about to know it's birds and animals that eat the flesh of the men of war in this passage... Jim
2007-07-01 14:43:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Looks to me like a everything mentioned was animal, no humans. And it was describing a huge feast to let the World see that God is Almighty and victorious. Sorry my interpretation doesn't agree with yours. Thanks and have a great day!
Fasc...as far as the Isaiah verse goes, it was being facetious in trying to make a point. Thanks for the comment.
2007-07-01 14:39:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you should read the whole thing (the first sentence) he was speaking to the birds. I'm not a bird yo.
2007-07-01 14:41:51 · answer #11 · answered by Brent R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋